Dick Cheney puts what I can only call an ‘ugly’ spin on this milestone in describing the US army as an all volunteer force, heralding Bush as the person carrying the biggest burden in the midst of this disaster. No word of course of the civilian cost to the people of Iraq. Read more here.

I’ve walked the halls of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York and though never meeting Governor Spitzer, there was never a shortage of suggestion, allegation and rumour about many of the elected representatives. Behaviour of such questionable standards lead to a ban on interns attending events where alcohol was served and a strict [...]

By far the more interesting element to this story is that the man to replace Spitzer, his Deputy David Paterson, will be the first Black Governor of New York State as well as being visually impaired. Read more here. 

What an achievement on the part of Israel that approaching the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the state it can claim to have so consistently denied and violated the rights of the people of the Gaza Strip that more Gazans are more dependent on food aid than ever before, hospitals suffer the longest power [...]

Clinton wins in Ohio and Texas though the delegates numbers still are not entirely in her favour despite the consensus her campaign has been revitalised after 12 successive losses while McCain has it in the bag - Coverage here

I had forgotten until reading this story about two men, lawyers, I met while in America who on behalf of a Palestinian lobby group based in the States were constructing a case suing the State of Israel for injustices done to the Palestinian people. Only one of the lawyers made his name public and worked [...]

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Today Sunday, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. New York Times coverage.

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